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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Truth.
(b) Community.
(c) Identity.
(d) Understanding.

2. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Security Administration.
(b) Farm Settler Administration.
(c) Farm Service Association.
(d) Farm Service Administration.

3. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Peace.
(c) Joy.
(d) Beauty.

4. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Their families.
(b) Reality.
(c) Their days.
(d) Their food.

5. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Faith.
(b) Colors.
(c) Real objects.
(d) Dragons.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.

2. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.

3. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

4. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.

5. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

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